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A study found that out of 100 countries in the world, South African couples are less likely to divorce than those in Western and European countries.

Nelson Mandela Bay’s 10 state-funded old age homes are on their knees as a meagre subsidy and the escalating cost of food and other basics create a perfect storm.

Stats SA’s latest report reflecting a loss of 94 000 jobs through 2022 is alarming, while the average wage increase of just 4.7% for private sector workers over the same period stands in damning contrast to the unbudgeted 7.5% increase that has just been granted to government workers.

Employment increased on a quarter-to-quarter basis but total employment decreased by nearly 100 000 between December 2021 and December 2022.

"So Easter is coming, irrespective of the amount of prayer that we put [in] it won't resolve load-shedding."

The total number of people employed in South Africa increased by 0,5% quarter-on-quarter, from 9 920 000 in September 2022 to 9 968 000 in December 2022.

The Eastern Cape ANC has described the decrease of the province’s unemployment rate from 47.9% in the fourth quarter of 2020 — at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic — to 42.1% in the same period in 2022, as a “watershed moment”.

Stats SA is set to release the latest consumer price index figures on Wednesday.

Several pieces of data and statistics will be thrown around to prove an unprovable hypothesis as is the nature of our heavily and increasingly less informed politics despite mountains of statistics and data at the disposal of the political landscape from Stats SA.

BrandMapp and SilverstoneCIS find out how the middle class have been affected, how they are feeling and dealing with power cuts